Courtney Love

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Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real
- Courtney Love
Collection: Girl
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You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Dream
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I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Beautiful
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If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Girl
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No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Guy
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You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Men
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The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Suicide
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Rap
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Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Mean
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I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Force
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Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto
- Courtney Love
Collection: Manifestos
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I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Fall
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You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!
- Courtney Love
Collection: Wise
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On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Karma
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Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Football
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I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Mediocrity
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I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Fun
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Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Writing
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I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Males
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Years
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In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Rocks
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I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Psychics
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Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.
- Courtney Love
Collection: People
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The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Liars
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I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Eccentric
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I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Nervous
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I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Sisterhood
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When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Eye
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My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Daughter
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I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Powerful
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I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Mean
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If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Drug
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I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Suicidal
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Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Cheerleading
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How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Stink
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When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Girl
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I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
- Courtney Love
Collection: World
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I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Rocks
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No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Daughter
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When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."
- Courtney Love
Collection: Girl
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For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Suicide
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Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Princess
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It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Stupid
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I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Rocks
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There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Cheating
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I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.
- Courtney Love
Collection: People
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Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Records
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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Play
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I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Jobs